I can no longer tell which ones are real and which are satire.
Even though I live what I do, getting paid is literally the only reason I go to work. If they did not pay me, I would not go.
I like my job. If I wasn’t getting paid, I’d still be doing it. Just not for them.
I’m pretty sure this person is joking.
we live in an age where almost all satire has happened at least 10 times
I’m sure they are, but I have had bosses who think this way.
I have an idea! Co-operatives, taxed automation, total freedom! Fuck work! Fuck all work! Most of us had enough of it for a lifetime. Even if you believe in working hard and earning your keep, the real issue is, you don’t actually get to enjoy much of the results! You waste time you could have spent helping others, getting fit, developing your skillsets and hobbies! Living life! Experiencing things!
I’ve always thought the idea of a neighborhood working together would do wonders. “John down the street loves cars so if u need a fix go see him, oh and this weekend we’re all helping roof his house cuz he helps us with cars and Hank across the street is gonna grill burgers for us” etc etc stuff like that.
You just invented villages
I wish I could live in a village. That sounds fucking fantastic. I want to know what the lady five houses down is doing. I want them to know what I’m doing.
I want to have a fucking community.
Living in a village has massive up and downsides.
The downsides are, that you are always dependant on a car to go anywhere. Public transit is usually non existent or unusable (at least if you value your time). Theres usually also not that much to do on the weekends. No going in a club because a band you like plays there. If you want to be able you have to drive their or have someone to drive you if you dont want to stay sober. The citizens of rural areas are usually more on the conservative side, so better not ask them about their views on immigrants. However it always depends on the region how bad it really is.
The upsides are, that you know people. You regularly see people, if you need help with something you can simply ask your neighbours, friends etc. Also since its a bit more common for people in rural areas to do manual labour this means, that you will know quite a lot of people that actually know how to do stuff. One massive upside is, that villages tend to be a bit more relaxed and more quiet in general. So this means, that after like 7pm its quite unusual to hear any or that much noise. However if someone is louder (e.g. they’re having a party) dont be a bitch and let them have fun. In return you can have fun too and dont get problems. However this highly depends on where you live. Especially older people sometimes tend to be quite bitchy and call the cops at you for being to loud. But again, it depends. If you decide to actually invest your time, es example by joining one or more clubs, you too get the chance to become part of the village. This is usually one of the few possible ways of actually integrating into a village and if you dont do this, you will be quite lonely.
And then theres stuff that’s an upside and a downside at the same time. Mainly it is, that when you know what everyone else has been up to everyone else knows what you have been up to. So better keep an eye on what you tell, because you can be sure that it will spread quite quickly and people love to make up weird shit, that doesn’t even have to be based on some form of reality. Trust me, this comes from someone who has heard the most bullshit imaginable told about my family.
So in short, its a quite fun thing but its not something for everyone. Especially the bad infrastructure is something that makes living in a village unattractive (this includes me, which is why I Am quite happy to live in a small town where I have quite a lot of aspects of the usual village live, but with more progressive people and actually functioning public transport).
I lived on an island with 20~25 people lighting there throughout 5 years. It was fucking great! I miss those years.
If you are going to steal the value I create why would I would harder then necessary for you to get richer through my exploitation.
The places to watch out for are the ones who have “unlimited” vacation time. That actually means “ooh, now’s really not a good time…”
My last contract had that and the first year I barely used 2 weeks. My regional manager started giving us heads up during contract negotiation time that we might not get it. Ended up taking 3 weeks that he approved and felt so good to actually use the benefits that were promised. He was going to retire soon anyways, so he was approving left and right.
Ended up get hired back at the same place under a different company, and now our PTO and vacation is horseshit
How is it “unlimited” if a manager has to approve? They might as well change the description from “unlimited vacation” to “anything from 0 to 365 days a year, whatever your boss (we) says flies.”
Its not and I learned that fast. At least I got to have some fun at the end
I think there was a company (might have been Virgin?) that did unlimited holiday, but the issue was that people ended up feeling ashamed for taking holiday and so basically ended up taking less than if they were given 25 days holiday.
We have unlimited time off and they have started adding more company vacation days because they’re worried we aren’t taking enough time off.
Yep, exactly
If you set a minimum vacation time, it’s not bad. But most places don’t do that, because they know you’ll take less time if they say unlimited.
I generally agree with you but my last two jobs transitioned to unlimited while I was there and the amount of time I took off was not impacted at either. Both of these jobs were client focused billable time types of jobs so I do think that has something to do with it, as long as I’m hitting my billable targets and contribution goals they don’t care how much time I have off really. I once took December off at the end of a super busy year.
People with all the equity thinking that they don’t need to share to get people to take ownership of work
what a fucking cuntoh it is satireI hate that we are in a timeline that I can’t be absolutely sure that this is satire anymore.
It absolutely is. This was his next post
LMAO! Taking notes from Lyndon Johnson I see! (For those not in the know, the US President would call people into the Oval Office crapper and talk to them while taking a dump.)
I used to do that with a professor at the urinals. Somehow, with all of our conversations, it just made the flow better.
i am never happy. not my thing.
me irl
Sure is! The last photo is hilarious actually
I’m reasonably sure it’s not?
I had a manager that said these things. These people are ghouls.
A show of vision only a Super CEO can have
That almost brings it over the line, but no, I think it’s serious. Only a heroic CEO could have the vision to give people time off. It’s nothing like what unions have been clamoring to do for over a century.
It definitely brings it over the line, and it’s absolutely satire.
I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would bitch people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.
Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn’t want to go through the “shame of divorce”(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).
Hope that dude stubs his toes every morning.
I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn’t have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like “We don’t have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here”. Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn’t work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.
I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.
I’m unemployed and my wife works from home 3 days a week. Seems like most weeks she makes an excuse to her boss to work at home the remaining days. I need my alone time, and I made that clear very early in our courtship. Just got in a blowout fight last week over it. My fault as I held my resentment in and blew, but I can’t broach the issue without her feeling rejected. I know because I’ve tried in the past.
Or they dislike someone else in the home. I definitely had people who loved their spouse, but hated actually having to take care of their kids, so they took tons of OT in order to minimize interacting with them at all.
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This person sounds floridly out-of-touch.
^ This person sounds like their satire detector is busted.
You get 28 days plus bank holidays by law though
American here. Starting January 1st i will be getting 2 weeks paid vacation each year plus major holidays. That’s more paid vacation time than i have ever had in 10 years of working.
My last job gave me so much PTO I never bothered learning how it accrued. I’d often take 3 Fridays off a month.
My dad was a VP in an engineering firm (1980s). He got two weeks a year, that’s it.
so much envy. here in california, you get three sick days. that’s it. no vacation, no holidays. i don’t think i’ve ever had a job willingly give me more, though i know such jobs do exist.
American here.
We get less than that. And we got a LOT of small business owners who are pissed that they have to of that. And like the meme, showcase it like it was a PRIVILEGE for working there.
This is all dependent on where you live. Many states don’t have any requirements. If the state focuses on its at-will status, you can bet leave or possibly even breaks is not a guarantee.
Yeah, time off varies quite a bit my company, though most seem to give at least 2 weeks of leave, often with no distinction between sick leave and vacation. I get 3 weeks + 2 days (and 11 fixed holidays), and I’m about to get 4 weeks + 2 days, and that’s considered “good” by American standards.
Not plus unfortunately as they can include the bank holidays in your statutory 28 days
Bank holidays
Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave.
An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.
Ah yeah, I should have known that having worked hospitality most of my life lol
Your salary has been made available in your corporate account, but why would you want to use it all and deprive your employer of the extra security a cash reserve brings? Work well done should be its own reward after all. A shareholder cries every time you make a withdrawal.
A shareholder cries every time you make a withdrawal.
Really? If I withdraw my paycheck cent by cent, can I mummify one by proxy?
The thing is, I actually do like my job, but I like doing other things too. If I didn’t have to work, I would probably do something like what I do at work anyway, just not as much of it (probably like 2 hours/day?).
That said, I absolutely take all of my time off. Sometimes I do work-like things on my leave (personal projects), but I will take all of my time off.
Loved my job before last. Some mornings I’d pop out of bed with a new idea I wanted to try, couldn’t wait to get to the office. Some nights I’d work on my home lab, testing ideas for work and learning for my own benefit.
But you damned straight I took my PTO. In fact, one of the two reasons I quit was being denied a single day of PTO. First time they had shot me down, unwise as I was the entire IT department.
If you really enjoy spaghetti & meatballs, why would you ever want to eat anything else?
